Hot Water Music
The New What Next [ Epitaph Records / CD - released 27/Sep/2004 ] With a unique blend of heartfelt punk, guttural rock, and explorative neo-hardcore, Hot Water Music deliver their third album on Epitaph. |
SIMONE de BONEFONT
Simone de Bonefont: Missa pro Mortuis Huelgas-Ensemble (early music ensemble) / Ensemble Huelgas, Paul Van Nevel [ Cypres / CD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 WINNER - Early Music |
Ipelegang Ensemble & Serankure Music Arts
Master Drummers of Africa [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] |
PROKOFIEV / KHACHATURIAN / SHOSTAKOVICH / GLIERE / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Russian Wind Band Classics Jacques Mauger (trombone) / Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra / Clark Rundell [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] '..the performances get the thumbs up. Chandos' recording engineers have done their work with the necessary bravado.' - International Record Review |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Orlando (complete opera) James Bowman, Arleen Augér, Catherine Robbin, Emma Kirkby / The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2014 ] "James Bowman's portrayal of Orlando is both impassioned and intelligent […]Emma Kirkby is perfectly cast in the tragi-comic role of the shepherdess Dorinda […] as unfailingly stylish an account as you're likely to get" (Gramophone) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 / Octet in E flat major, Op. 20 James Ehnes (violin) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy / Seattle Chamber Music Octet [ Onyx / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "The first thing that hits you about Ehnes's reading is the rhythmic propulsion of the concerto's outer movements, which lifts the music, revealing its glorious bone-structure." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, February 2011 |
BARBER / BERNSTEIN / CARTER / COPLAND / IVES
American Chamber Music American Chamber Music James Ehnes (violin) / Seattle Chamber Music Society [ ONYX / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] James Ehnes and friends from the Seattle Chamber Music Society hit the road on a fascinating journey through chamber music by some of the giants of 20th-century American classical music. Aaron Copland's masterful Violin Sonata, Leonard Bernstein's... |
J. S. BACH
St John Passion, BWV245 James Gilchrist, Matthew Rose, Ashley Riches, Elizabeth Watts, Sarah Connolly / Academy of Ancient Music Orchestra & Chorus, Richard Egarr [ AAM Records / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2015 ] "Egarr whips up venomous indignation for the crowd's joustings with Pilate. Sarah Connolly's 'Es ist vollbracht' is searing...And Elizabeth Watts's 'Zerfliesse, mein Herze' is almost unbearably poignant." BBC Music |
J. S. BACH
Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245 James Gilchrist, Neal Davies, Sophie Bevan, Iestyn Davies, Benedict Kearns / Academy of Ancient Music & King's College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Cleobu [ King's College SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 15/May/2017 ] "The Academy of Ancient Music retains it standing as one of the best period music ensembles in the world, King's College nonpareil among contemporary sacred music bands, and the recording gorgeously captured in a venue most of us are quite familiar." |
LYELL CRESSWELL
Prayer for the Cure of a Sprained Back / Sextet / etc Jane Manning (soprano) / New Music Group of Scotland [ Metier / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "this composer is most effective when writing for voices." Gramophone |
Music by John Carpenter
The Fog - Original Movie Soundtrack (Two Disc) [ Silva Screen / 2 CD - released 5/Oct/2012 ] "Silva Screen's 2000 release of John Carpenter's score to his 1980 Ancient Mariner zombie slasher now gets the deluxe reissue treatment, with a whole other CD of extra tracks. Re-mastered by Carpenter collaborator Alan Howarth, CD2 is a revelation, as clo |
ALAN HOVHANESS
Hovhaness: Symphonies Nos. 4, 20 and 53 John Wallace (trumpet) / Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Wind Orchestra / Keith Brion (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 16/Dec/2005 ] "Anyone interested in the composer or in 20th century wind music will find this to be a worthwhile bargain" (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
Johnny Almond Music Machine
Hollywood Blues [ Vocalion / CD - released 19/May/2008 ] |
ROGER SESSIONS
String Quintet / String Quartet No. 1 / Canons Joshua Gordon (Cello) / Group for Contemporary Music [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 17/Jun/2006 ] "With expert performances and reprised notes this is a self-recommending disc. Those unconvinced by the quintet may yet revel in the quartet, a work well worth getting to know – and at this price there’s no reason not to." (MusicWeb June 2006) |
JOSEF HAYDN
Music For England [2 CD set] Judith Nelson (soprano) & Paul Elliott (tenor) / The Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "handsomely produced, very well recorded" (Gramophone) |
MAHLER / BUSONI / ZEMLINSKY / WAGNER
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr. Schoenberg) & chamber arrangements Katie Bray (mezzo) / Royal Academy of Music Ensemble, Trevor Pinnock [ Linn Records SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/May/2015 ] Historical performance pioneer Trevor Pinnock conducts the Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble in revealing chamber arrangements from Mahler to Zemlinksy. Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr.Schoenberg) is the third in the series... |
THOMAS ADES
Adès: In Seven Days Kirill Gerstein (piano) Thomas Adès (piano/conductor), Tanglewood Music Centre Orchestra [ Myrios / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 Winner - Contemporary |
TOM CIPULLO
Cipullo: The Parting Laura Strickling (soprano), Catherine Cook (mezzo-soprano), Michael Mayes (baritone) / Music of Remembrance, Alastair Willis [ Naxos American Opera Classics / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Heard here in its world premiere recording, The Parting is a daring opera by award-winning composer Tom Cipullo and librettist David Mason that explores the life and art of Miklós Radnóti, one of the most important poetic witnesses to the Holocaust.. |
JOSEPH BODIN de BOISMORTIER
Boismortier: Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse Le Concert Spirituel (early music ensemble); Hervé Niquet [ Château de Versailles Spectacles / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] In 1743, two years before Rameau's Platee, Boismortier created an extraordinarily modern and madcap "comic ballet", Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse. As the exuberant plot unfurls, Cervantes' hero encounters monsters, enchanters, princesses and people... |
Le Poème Harmonique (early music ensemble), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano), Vincent Dumestre
Mon amant de Saint-Jean [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Fascinated by the interplay of echoes from one past to another, Vincent Dumestre and Stephanie d'Oustrac found an affinity in the project Mon Amant de Saint-Jean, their very first collaboration, and aimed to make it a unique musical adventure: a... |